As I am writing this the Haiti earthquake news are all over the Internet and CNN is on in the background with somewhat more honest news reporting than expected. Catastrophic events such as those unfolding in Haiti show us the best and the worst of human kind as we hear of people lying and stealing in the mist of the shattered city of Port-au-Prince, while others travel thousands of miles to help out as the global community struggles to give a helping hand.

Our world is changing so fast, but too often in the areas it might not really matter. The Internet is a centralized placed where the difference between nations and culture gets blurred, while the real world takes longer to adapt. The latest display of how technology is far ahead of our thinking and behavior can be witnessed through the response to Haiti.

Through Twitter, Facebook and other social media people have rallied together to help in whichever way they feel they can. CNN is helping out in three somewhat new methods. Via the CNN iReport regular people on the ground can send in their photos and videos to give clearer picture of what is happening. On the CNN "Impact the World" information are given as to how people can directly help out. Finally CNN has now told people that they can post a photos and names of missing loved ones via the iReport.  The level of involvoment by the general public has most likely never been so abundant!

Few hours or even minutes after the earthquake we began seeing tweets about special phone numbers for donations. Facebook page was quickly created and has now over 88K followers. There people can post photos and find links to further information. In fact the whole internet community was up and running straight from the start doing what they could.

That leaves the government and organizations all over the world struggling to keep up! At this point, about 38 hours after the disaster news reports still indicate that rescue is unorganized, with medical, heavy equipment and other supplies yet to arrive in any considerable numbers.

What we need is a Global Disaster Center (GDC)!

• The world needs a new organization that operates independently from, but in cooperation with, the Red Cross, UN, Doctors without borders and other similar groups.
• It should not be bound to any Government and have pre-signed authorizations from every country in the world to operate within their borders in case of disaster.
• GDC should have minimum of 20 (and upwards) volunteer in each country simply on standby in case of local disaster. These volunteers should be the local asset, ensure communication channel and initial cooperation of all involved.
• GDC should have about 3-4 warehouses on strategic locations around the world with machinery, medical and food supplies, located at an airport where cargo planes can be dispatched within 1-2 hours.
• There should be ready made deals with rescue crews in most countries of the world that the GDC can contact and request without any bureaucracy or middle man. Included in this should be deals with airlines and other transportation companies.
• GDC should have 10 point (or so) action plan for the most common disaster ready to roll out. (It was interesting to see CNN reporter pull up Google Maps with roads, important location such as airports and harbors, and in few moments had a decent action plan mapped out. With current technology such action plans are so much easier to set up).
• The purpose of GDC would be the dispatch of first rescuers, initial operation and organization on site and finally (most likely within 2 weeks) pull out and hand over operation to local authorities or other organizations such as the Red Cross.

Imagine such organization where every individual in it, weather it is the local volunteers, rescuers, doctors or the staff of GDC would be connected through closed social network. With pre-build tools such Global Organization could within minutes dispatch rescue crews from all over the world. Centralized databases could monitor manpower, supplies, tools, medicine and serve as communicator to other organizations and news corporations.

We have all the technology today to create such an organization, now we just need the willpower and someone to start!